Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The Predator Paradox
Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist.
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Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common—even for people living in non-rural areas. Farmers anxious to protect their...
The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf
Back to the Blue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The return of the Mexican gray wolf to Arizona's Blue Range in 1998 marked more than a victory for an endangered species. Long hated by ranchers, the gray wolf had been hunted to the brink of extinction until one woman took on the challenge of restoring it to its natural habitat.
Inspired by...
The Story of a Forest
Growth, Destruction and Renewal in the Upper Delaware Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions. Emerging after the last glaciation, they were first modified by Native Americans to promote hunting and limited agriculture. The forests began to disappear as Europeans...
Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands
Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.
This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate...
by Shawn Thompson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted. Princess was taught sign language by a researcher and had a limited ability to combine vocabulary. . ..
For centuries the shaggy red orangutan lived in peaceful seclusion in the jungles...
Tracks and Shadows
Field Biology as Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, delves into the poetry...
by Lynn E. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
As oil was washing up on the shores of Louisiana, covering shorebirds and their nests and eggs after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Lynn Barber decided to write this book to heighten awareness, not only of the plight of bird species that are declining in numbers every year, but also of the ways in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
This pioneering encyclopedia illuminates a topic at the forefront of global ecology—biological invasions, or organisms that come to live in the wrong place. Written by leading scientists from around the world, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions addresses all aspects of this subject at a global...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 1: From the Florida Peninsula to the Coastal Plain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This Island Press E-ssential is the first in a three-part series that covers John Davis’s epic journey from Florida to Canada. During 10 months in 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles from the Florida Everglades to Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula by foot, bicycle,...
A Wetland Biography
Seasons on Louisiana’s Chenier Plain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Louisiana's Chenier Plain is a 2,200-square-mile region of marshes and oak-covered ridges (cheniers) that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from Sabine Lake to Vermilion Bay. Its inhabitants, some 6,000 people of Cajun and other ancestries, retain strong economic and cultural ties to the land and its...
by Peter Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Freshwater is in great supply across much of Canada. However, competing and changing demands on its use are leading to ever more complex political arrangements. This volume offers an integrated survey of that complexity, combining historical and contemporary cases in a conceptually-informed exploration...
by Peter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Peter Scott: Collected Writings, 1933-1989 brings together some of Peter Scott's most inspiring, perceptive and entertaining writings, with a foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. From rocket-netting wild geese to an address to the Pope, Scott's writings show the energy and passion that underpinned...
Digging the City
An Urban Agriculture Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies...
Among Chimpanzees
Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
**Foreword by Jane Goodall
A former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save man’s closest relative.**
Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses show them to be extinct in four African...